• Administration for Children and Families
• Administration on Aging
• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Food and Drug Administration
• Health Resources and Services Administration
• Indian Health Service
• National Institutes of Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency that administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs. CMS provides health insurance for over 74 million Americans through these programs.

The CMS home page on the WWW offers to providers, beneficiaries and professionals a wide range of information about the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Shown below is a sample of what can be accessed through the CMS home page. The web site address is

http://www.cms.hhs.gov

Medicare Information:

• Overview of the Medicare Program
• Consumer Information

  Medicare Publications including the Medicare Handbook and 1996 Guide to Health Insurance for People with Medicare; Medicare Deductible, Coinsurance and Premium Amount; and State-Specific Medicare Information

• Professional/Technical Information

  Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Services; and Quality of Care Information including CLIA, ESRD, and Peer Review Program

• Medicare and Managed Care

  Managed Care Reports and Files;

  Medicare+Choice Program; Managed

  Care Publications; and Beneficiary

  Educational Material

• Electronic Data Interchange
• Fraud and Abuse Prevention
• Medicare Integrity Program

  Health Insurance Portability and

  Accountability Act (Kassebaum-Kennedy

  legislation)

  Conflict of Interest Issues

• Publications and Forms

  CMS Financial Reports; Medicare and

  Medicaid Manuals; the Managed Care

  Resource Information Directory and

  Newsletters (CMS Health Watch)

• Research and Demonstration Publications
• Laws and Regulations
• Public Affairs Information

  Press Releases; Fact Sheets; Speeches;

  Testimony; and Publications

From the CMS home page there are links to additional topics of interest such as:

• HHS Home Page
• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
• White House Federal Briefing Room: Health Statistics
• Healthfinder
• The Social Security Administration
• HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
• Government Printing Office (GAO)
• GRANTSNet - Information on HHS grants as well as other grants
• The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)

Additional CMS addresses of interest include:

• Influenza immunizations - Medicare Preventive Services

As a Medicare Part A and B contractor for CMS, Empire Medicare Services encourages you to utilize the Internet not only to access the EMS Web site at www.empiremedicare.com, but also to access the CMS Web site at http://www.cms.hhs.gov.